Consumer Safety Report (Poison in your Spice)

The issue today is food poisoning. Though food poisoning is the most common type of poisoning it is very harmful to health and sometimes even life threatening. Food poisoning you may know are Salmonella, Giardia, E coli, Cholera. If you have ever had one of these food poisonings you realise the horrible results of such an illness. I will give you a few ways to prevent food poisoning from affecting you and your family for advanced stability in health.

Wash Your Hands: It is very important that before you begin cooking or anything in the kitchen which involves you touching the food with your hands that you wash your hands with soap and warm water. Don't forget to get the dirt between your nails and fingers for a thorough washing and dry them off. Also please do not blow you nose when your cooking.

Respect Expiry Dates: This is very important as expired food contains harmful bugs that develop overtime inside the package itself. So when you drink it after the expiry date it is not a surprise that you will probably get food poisoning. This is based on scientific research.

Cook Food Thoroughly: Make sure that any time of meat that you are cooking is cooked properly from the inside and there is no pink left in the meat. As leaving the meat inappropriately cooked can also cause food poisoning.

Use Different Chopping Boards: Make sure to use a different chopping board for ready to eat food and raw food as raw food can contain dangerous bacteria that can quickly multiply by through anything it touches including different types of foods, counter tops, knives and as previously mentioned chopping boards. If you do not want to use two different chopping boards you can also mix bleach with warm water. This mixture can be put in a spray bottle and spritzed on the cutting board. Wait a while until it dries and then wipe clean with dishcloth to make sure no residue is left over that may get into your food. If you find bleach as being a harsh chemical you can also use vinegar in its place it works just as good. Then you are ready to start cutting your food on the chopping board.

Clean Dishcloths: Last but not least and most importantly you must always wash our dishcloths  regularly and dry them before you use them again. The reason being that damp, dirty and wet cloths are the ideal location for bacteria to grow and spread rapidly and because dishcloths are used to clean most things in the kitchen it is very important to keep them clean for the safety and health of your family.

Food poisoning in the home is very common even though many people are not aware of this and it is very important to keep your family and yourself safe for good health by following the simple and easy methods illustrated above.